Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/05/20/14:27:18
On Tue, 19 May 1998, Tony Kao wrote:
> with the compile option: gcc -o hello.exe hello.cpp -lstdcx
> I found the execution file size is 386560 bytes, which is much bigger than
> gcc 2.7.2 outputs. For gcc 2.7.2 the execution file size for the same
> program is 187675 bytes.
It is not meaningful to compare unstripped binaries. They include
debugging info, and the more debugging info, the better debugger support.
Please strip both binaries and then compare the sizes.
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